Google Doodles: Freddie Mercury and Horror Character Anthems

I know I've been slacking on my newly launched Google Doodle posts but it's not my fault that Google only decides to put them up when I'm having a super lazy day right? That's what I thought. In any case, once I found out what today's Google Doodle was, there was no way I could pass up an opportunity to talk about it.

Today marks what would have been the 65th birthday of Freddie Mercury. Here is a heart warming story for you in regards to why I feel I have a special love of all things Freddie. Back sometime in the wonderful decade of the 1990s, my Dad brought home our very first CD player. Yes, yes all you oldies can pish posh all you want, but in my day CD players were a big deal. The first CD my Dad bought along with our brand new CD player was Classic Queen. A CD that I would play nonstop and dance to by my lonesome in the living room. It is due to this I think and the fact that Queen was one of the only CDs my Dad played in the car---that I love them.

Therefore in order to pay tribute to who was perhaps one of the greatest musicians of all time, I am going to dedicate a few of Queens greatest hits to some of the greatest horror characters and movies of all time.

Somebody to Love

Frankenstein's Monster in...

Bride of Frankenstein

Defining Lyrics:

Everyday, I try and I try and I try

But everybody wants to put me down

They say I'm goin' crazy

They say I got a lot of water in my brain

Got no common sense

I got nobody left to believe

A Kind of Magic

Corky and Fats in...

Magic

Defining Lyrics:

It's a kind of magic,

A kind of magic,

One dream, one soul, one prize,

One goal, one golden glance of what should be

I'm Going Slightly Mad

Miss Giddens in...

The Innocents

Defining Lyrics:

I'm going slightly mad

I'm going slightly mad

It finally happened - happened

It finally happened - ooh oh

It finally happened - I'm slightly mad

Oh dear

Under Pressure

Robert Thorn in...

Soylent Green

Defining Lyrics:

It's the terror of knowing

What this world is about

Watching some good friends

Screaming let me out

Pray tomorrow - gets me higher

Pressure on people - people on streets

I Want It All

Herbert West in...

Re-animator

Defining Lyrics:

I´m a man with a one track mind,

So much to do in one life time(people do you hear me)

Not a man for compromise and where´s and why´s and

living lies

So I´m living it all, yes I´m living at all,

And I´m giving it all, and I´m giving it all,

I want it all, I want it all,

I want it all, and I want it now

I Want To Break Free

Rosemary Woodhouse in...

Rosemary's Baby

Defining Lyrics:

I want to break free

I want to break free

I want to break free from your lies

You're so self satisfied I don't need you

I've got to break free

God knows, God knows I want to break free

Bohemian Rhapsody

David in...

An American Werewolf in London

Defining Lyrics:

Too late, my time has come,

Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all

the time

Goodbye, ev'rybody, I've got to go,

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth